Khwārizmī, Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd خوارزمي، ركن الدين جمشيد [Risālah fī al-ramy] [رسالة في الرمي]

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An untitled treatise on archery ascribed to Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Khwārizmī (ركن الدين جمشيد الخوارزمي, ca. 9th century), whose name is given as Rukn al-Dīn Jamshār (جمشار) in the present copy.

This short work discusses the great masters and 'schools' (مذهب) of archery, on the authority of Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن أحمد الطبري, ca. 9th century), author of the oldest surviving comprehensive archery treatise and himself founder of the 'eclectic school' (مذهب الاختيار; see al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review ,8/1 (2004), pp. 141-200, especially pp. 163-66).

Begins (f. 279r, lines 15-18):

كتاب يذكر فيه ثلاث مذاهب

واختيار الطبري وستة أوجه وأيضًا ثمان مناصب على التمام

والكمال وبالله التوفيق وعليه التكلان

وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم

Ends (f. 293v, lines 12-15):

...وقيل عن أبي بكر بن عبد العزيز بن جلهم

البغدادي بأنه كان خبير بعلم الرمي ووقف على هذا الكتاب وصح

وقال لا يجوز منع العلم لمستحقه من المسلمين وقيل عنه أنه ما سأله

أستاذ أو رامي أو متعلم عن شيء من علم الرمي إلا وعرفه رحمه الله

Extent and format

Ff. 279r-293v

It is part of

Three treatises on military science

606 images

Ref: Or 3631

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 3631, ff 279r-293v

History of this record

Date(s)

15th century (CE, Gregorian)

Related material

Finding aids

Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 820/3, pp. 556-7

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Edition:

• Ẓāhirī, Baktūt al-Rammāḥ and Rukn al-Dīn Ḥamshār al-Khwārizmī, Risālatān fī al-furūsīyah wa-ʻilāj al-khayl, ed. by al-Khālidī, Anwar ʻAwdah and Amjad Mamdūḥ al-Fāʻūrī (ʿAmmān: Dār min al-Muḥīṭ ilá al-Khalīj li-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2016)

Study:

• Al-Sarraf, Shihab, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamluk Studies Review ,8/1 (2004), pp. 141-200

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Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd KhwārizmīʻAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad Ṭabarī

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Khwārizmī, Rukn al-Dīn Jamshīd خوارزمي، ركن الدين جمشيد [Risālah fī al-ramy] [رسالة في الرمي], British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 3631, ff 279r-293v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100126831768.0x000001> [accessed 16 November 2024]

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